Weekly Wellness
Issue 364
Featured Article
Using Free Hand Weights Tips for exercising with free hand weights, fitness ball workout tips and free hand weight exercise suggestions.
Fitness Tip
The Six Cherry Remedy for Gout
Gout can cause excruciating pain. Here is a very effective folk remedy... It dates back to the 1950's, to a Texas doctor who was so crippled by a gouty big toe, he was forced to use a wheelchair. he reported in a Texas medical journal that a diet including six cherries a day soon had him up and walking. He added that his physician tried the cherry diet on 12 patients and had equally spectacular results. A survey done by Prevention magazine found that 67 percent of readers who tried cherries for gout enjoyed good results. Also, a top kinesiologist in Louisville, Kentucky, enthusiastically recommends them. He advises people with gout to quiet eating red meats and organ meats and also to drink two to three glasses of cherry juice a day. He recommends using pure black-cherry juice diluted with an equal amount of water.
Nutrition Tip
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Quip or Quote of the Week
Quip:
Don't exercise before a cholesterol test. Exercising 12 to 24 hours before a cholesterol test can alter the results and may cause a possible misdiagnosis of coronary heart disease.
Quick Recipe
Easy Potato Salad
For an easy potato salad, mix one-quarter cup each mayonnaise and balsamic dressing, toss with one pound warm quartered, cooked potatoes and sliced celery. Top with 2 tablespoons bacon bits.
Tidbit(s)
Vegetables and Dip
Pour 2 tablespoons light Ranch Dressing into each of 8 short glasses. Place 3/4 cup assorted fresh vegetables, such as carrot sticks, celery sticks, red and green bell pepper strips and sugar snap peas, in each glass. Makes 8 servings; 2 tablespoon dressing and 3/4 cup vegetables each.
Food Fixes
Did you know... Smucker's Simply Fruit Strawberry Spreadable Fruit is only 30 percent actual strawberries and 70 percent fruit syrup from lemon juice concentrate, pectin, red grape juice, and other unspecified "natural flavors".
Keep a pack of sugarless gum on hand: Chewing it after meals will help prevent stains when you don't have access to a tooth brush.
Tasty Tidbit...
Add just a splash of lemon juice (bottled is okay) to your frosting of cream cheese and confectioners sugar for a tasty touch.
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